The Pricks / The Undeground Railroad To Candyland - split 10"

Well it's Halloween tomorrow and I've been looking around the other music blogs and many have special themed music.  Over at Cosmic Hearse, Aesop the guy who runs it, is touring with his bands, but one of his buddies has a sweet Halloween themed comp thing up for your listening pleasure.  Here at MR I guess I just couldn't think of anything special, boring old me.  Odd because despite the consumer craziness that it represents today, it is my favorite holiday.  The old lady really gets into it too and has us buy more and more decorations every year.  I'm kind of superstitious myself with my wierd spirtual mix of pan-Native religion, The Gospel of Thomas, Gnosticism and a little Santa Ria thrown in.  Everyone should at least read a general breakdown of what Halloweenis about, like the one you can get at my usual source here.  Something in the air I think, but those kinds of feelings and superstitions aren't rational so I'll keep my personal beliefs to myself.  On the other hand, here in the bible belt you definitely have two factions.  There are those that celebrate the consumer oriented, devoid of spirituality, day for children to collect cavities.  Then there is the Christian right wing literalists who believe that it is the devils day and that anything associated with Halloween has to do with heretics and evil.  They even have Halloween alternative events, candy and games but no scary shit.  Funny because even though I disagree with them on so many fronts, I would at least agree with them in that it is a spiritual day and it should not be taken lightly.  Booooooo! Got this picture along with several others of graffiti in various places.  Social commentary at it's best, short and sweet.  That less is more attitude can say so much more than my drawn out ramblings ever could.  Does anyone agree that as some of us get older the "Lies and Bullshit filter" gets more finely tuned? Was reading comments over at Erich's Good Bad site and ran across a guy who semi-regularly has interesting comments over there.  Mr. Poopy.  Great sense of humor and it turns out he has a site of his own called, Glorify the Turd.  I wonder if Mr. Poopy has an unhealthy obsession with feces.  Anyway he's got quite the variety going on over there and if anything it might be good for a laugh or two.  Some stuff is posted for it's inherent comedy.  He did turn me onto one of the best song titles I've heard in a long time, from a band called Artless.  Check that tune Artless - When You're My Age You'll Be Selling Insurance and be sure and check out his site. Was also reading somewhere that there is a difference between redneck and hillbilly.  I would agree but it's subtle like the difference between country and western.  We have both here, and I would say that for a redneck it would be an insult to call another redneck a hillbilly.  I say that as I am slowly morphing myself into a pseudo-redneck maybe even a hillbilly.  I will always fall short of a complete transformation though because I don't enjoy hunting, I don't like most country music and I can't stand John Wayne.  Even still I do live in the country, have horses, numerous dogs and both running and not running pick ups.  What had me scared for a little bit is the change in speech patterns, but I figure it's something you can't stop and it's not so bad.  "Y'all" (you all), came pretty quick, but it wasn't long until "Yar" (you are) was in my vocabulary.  We'll see what comes next. This record is one of my most recent scores and actually represents the newest record I have in my collection as it was released in 2009.  What makes this a Mustard Relic, other than the fact that both sides of this bad boy kick ass, is that an old friend (that I never actually met), Todd C. is in The Undergroun Railroad To Candyland (URTC).  He's the guy that put out the Garden Weasel 7" on his own Recess records way back when.  now this thing was limited to only 300 copies so I doubt there are any left, but do yourself a favor and go and see if you can at his store or his site.  This was co-released by Rockstar Records, so if you're in Europe you should check with them if you want this.  I'm pretty much just going to let the music speak for itself, but I will say you have two very different bands.  The Pricks kind of remind me Zeke with that straight forward all out attach.  Really dig the singers voice, remind me of someone else but I don't know who.  Now both bands are playful, but I would say that URTC is a bit more so.  They kind of have more of a surfed out punk thing going on.  I don't know I'm not very good with descriptions, I just know I dug the hell out of both sides of this thing.  Let me know what you think. The Pricks Fuck You Too 5 Dollar Hand Job I Wish I Could Dance Like Sir Henry Fiat Don't Rape Piss On Me I'm On Fire Cover Up Short Song Is This A fucking Date Pay To Cum Contan Sick Go Home The Underground Rairoad To Candyland No Way! Miss U.S.A.! Age Of Consent Basty Wolves Yuppie Hip Hop Ad Livin' In A Straw (In The Summer Of Fraud)

"Joys Of Mountain And Sea" Greek demotic

As has become regular around here, I wanted to share a tune I heard on the classic rock station today (the BBC version anyway).  Cream - Politician One of the invaluable functions I have at work, is making flyers for different events.  Kind of a fun thing to do because I like browsing through different clip art images (you may have seen them around here before, but it's been a while).  One of the many things that may make this site your regular stopping place is my use of recycled clip art.  Anyway so I'm making a flyer to celebrate the birthdays of two of the guys I work with, type in "party" and on the first page of images I get this piece of clip art.  It's entitled, "woman getting botox injection at a party".  The image itself, in that playful clip art way really portrays the grotesque vanity human beings are capable of.  Man I fucking love that image, it's almost a story in itself and really could be a topic all by itself.  I don't know if you see it but it reminds me of something Nick Blinko would do. So I'm still looking for "party" images and I run across this image.  Love this one too, but it was interesting because it made me think of some topics that have come up here and elsewhere.  My old band Garden Weasel and the super successful Green Day.  Other than both starting with the letter "G" and playing music you might wonder what those two bands have in common.  Well we both played Angelos Pizza in Arcata California in 1991.  Ha, my brush with fame.  Actually I've brushed elbows with many super stars in my time including the actress who played Nellie Olson on the TV hit "Little House On The Prairie".  See what I mean.  Now what made that show special was not that we played with Green Day, who were just like us at the time, nothing, but the fact that for Garden Weasel it was the best paying gig we ever had.  The owners decide to pay us in beer and pizza.  I don't think they realized how much a few of our friends (roadies, ha, ha) could consume.  I remember thinking that we must have ingested about $400 worth of beer and pizza.  So what the image above is, is a picture of me watching Green Day.  In the picture at left, the manager or owner thought the people there were getting a little to0 crazy, so he made everyone sit down or he was going to stop the show.  Now I give Green Day a hard time and maybe a part of that is that they are making a (too) good living doing something they love and I'm jealous.  The reality is that they are a damn good pop band and no one can take that away from them.  But to this day I can't stand what they stand (stood) for and in hanging out with them I decided, that night, almost 20 years ago, that had they stuck around the pizza parlor for very long I would have puked on them and all the little idiots that followed them around.  I read this at one site, "punk just wouldn't have been the same without Green Day. The band brought back punk in a big way, laying the groundwork for many pop-punk bands to follow".  As penance for my envy I thought I'd share some of their tunes with you. 1000 Hours - (their 1st EP) An Operation Ivy cover, that I don't really dig.  If you want the best that Lookout Records had to offer, forget Green Day, and think about Op Ivy or Filth (period)... Knowledge I've been threatening/promising this one for a while.  I did the Armenian folk thing a while back, Rendevous In Armenia.  Basically this was the shit that got played at this club my mom and her friends went in LA on Temple St. called the Intersection.  Mediteranean type stuff with music, food and dancing.  Must have heard this stuff in utero because I can feel it in my bones, even though I have no idea what they're singing about.  Actually maybe a little bit, it seems somber at least.  I sent a rip of this album to my friend Billy at 7" Crust who lives in Greece.  He was not amused, but he said that his mom or grandma might dig it.  For all I know it could be like listening to country here.  Anyway, everything is in Greek so I have no translations of anything on or about this record.  The style is demotic and in case you enjoy reading something you're not really into check this.  Anyway I played the clarinet for a semester in junior high school and the horn in this reminds me of the clarinet.  Really the lead instrument and if you can appreciate nothing else besides the sadness of the singing at least listen to the horn on track 8, at 23:30 (as a favor to me, ha, ha). [youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=semCwN4Vyl8&w=560&h=315]

Mustard relics mix #3 (the blues)

Got this one in the mail.  The kind of joke a christian who didn't like some of  what science has to say,  might send to another like minded person, but it made me grin.  I'm around a lot of people who are very literal about their bible and as I mentioned on another site, they don't understand the power of the metaphor.  To me it's not worth arguing with them because what I "know" and what they "know" are two different things.  These types of thinkers, or should I say believers, tend to hold their faith over the heads of others and wield the Bible like a weapon.  Small town life accomodates people with that point of view as they smile to their neighbors and chit chat at the store about the farming, ranching and the weather, while secretly condemning them.  It's nice being an outsider who is just an observer and not a part of any particular group.  If anything to them I'm defined by the fact that I work with "retards" (they whisper under their breath).  For some, the people I work with are contagious and I too may miraculously develop disabilities.  You can learn a lot from people who's lives aren't cluttered with the everyday dramas we are surrounded with.  Thus ends my scattered rambling wisdom for the day. A beautifully grisly piece of animation someone sent to me.

http://www.dailymotion.com/swf/xavnkm&related=0 VIDEOGIOCO - loop experiment Uploaded by milkyeyes1. - Discover more animation and arts videos.

It's odd, I have all these old records I could post, even have some new ones coming in the mail any day now, but I felt like following my last post, although in a completely different direction, and posting a comp of sorts.  Another tape for you all.  This one is inspired by a tape that a friend of mine, Jeremy, made for me back in college, that I have since lost.  I've scoured my boxes of shit with no luck in finding a tape that represented the sum total of my blues music experience at the time I got it.  Like discovering a skip in a record, the fact that I can't find it brings me down.  All kinds of shit going on in this world and around me, but the loss of a piece of music is what afffects me.  Anyway, I remembered most of the tunes that were on that and have aquired them, to present to you now.  If you're into this kind of music (how could you not be?) a good starting point would be the On Muddy Sava Riverbank blog.  They were a lot of help to me as my physical copies of blues music is almost nil.  Bear with me now on the sound quality as some of these tunes were transfered from old 78s and are almost 80 years old.  As has become the custom with making these comps, this mix should fit neatly on a standard writable CD.  If you're in the right mood, understand music history or just love good music this will be the shit for you.  Let me know, i'm curious.

 

Sylvester Cotton - I Tried Sylvester Cotton - Thanksgiving Blues Sylvester Cotton - Stormy Weather Blues Sylvester Cotton - Brownskin Blues Fred McDowell - Wouldn't Mind Dyin' Blind Lemon Jefferson - Change My Luck Blues Son House - Walking Blues Blind Lemon Jefferson - Hangmans Blues Sam Collins - Jail House Blues Blind Lemon Jefferson - See That My Grave Is Kept Clean Bukka White - Aberdeen Mississippi Blues John Lee Hooker - Boom Boom John Lee Hooker - Hobo Blues John Lee Hooker - It Serves Me Right To Sufferjohn Lee Hooker - Helpless Blues Lightin Hopkins - Gin Bottle Blues Lightnin Hopkins - Goin Down Slow_ Lightnin Hopkins - Baby Please Don't Go Lightnin Hopkins - Lonesome Road Mississippi John Hurt - Make Me A Pallet On The Floor Robert Johnson - Crossroad Son House - Death Letter Blues Son House - Levee Camp Blues John Lee Hooker - Look At What You Did To My Life

Samples of the many great blues videos out there.

[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ikxLNaAYu5k&w=425&h=344]

[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=77pmWCpMNkI&w=425&h=344]

[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bsMpHHSLSlc&w=425&h=344]

Mustard Relics mix #2

Not feeling too well tonight, but doing something music related is sometimes what the doctor ordered.  I've been sitting on this post for a little while and wanted to do something easy tonight.  Easy does not mean not necessarily mean not worthwhile, just something to put out there.  Used to make mixed tapes all the time for those close to me, some of you may have one or two in a box in the garage.  Sitting in front of the turntable surrounded by records, going through searching for that 1-2 minute tune, that you knew whichever friend you were making it for would dig.  Must have taken at least 4 hours just to come up with a 90 minute tape.  Kind of a two birds with one stone thing, listening to music and sharing it at the same time.  Not so personal this time, a couple of mouse clicks here and there, and presto.  Part of what this site is about, though is sharing something I love.  I love my wife too but I don't share her.  This mix includes bands that are for the most part faster than most (not absolutely, as some tunes were just begging to be put on a comp), thus my feeble attempt at irony with the picture above.  All good tunes, in my opinion, some of which I own, others I have gotten from elsewhere in the two years that I've been wandering around sites that share music (a big thanx to those of you who do that).  Should all fit on one 80 minute CD to blast in your car and annoy the old lady.  I'm just not feeling it tonight guys, but maybe with these tunes you guys will.  Later.

Stark Raving Mad - No Reason Bastard - Misery Watchmaker - Dawn Of Indifference / Nuked To Ashes He Who Corrupts - Mama On The Rocks Lana Dagales - Pocket Change Feeding Millions Deformed Conscience - Slave To Convenience Bruce Banner - Dont Make Me Angry Monster X - Got The Guts Crossed Out - Heman Brainoil - Naive In A Bliss Napalm Death - Instinct Of Survival Chronical Diarrhoea - Hellcommander Hirudinea - Just kill Us Artimus Pyle - Paint It Black Desecration - Who's In Control False Confessions - Distrust Dystopia - Anger brought On By Disease Presto? - Anti Lei Terrorizer - Human Prey Nulla Osta - Nema Nade Capitalist Casualties - Dark Circle Iron Lung - One Cure For Two Diseases Lack Of Interest - Whats Up Extreme Noise Terror - You Take Part In Creating This System Deep Wound - Lou's Anxiety Song Repulsion - Radiation Sickness Sayyadina - Nothing Slight Slappers - Stick To Your Faith Quattro Stagioni - Blame It On The Money Heresy - Never Healed venom - Angel Dust Infest - Screwed Short hate Temper - Spacing Out Stack - Generation Gap Rainbow Of Death - Dark Funeral Gride - Tanec Blaznu Excrement of War - Blood Stained Cross Shank - Necropolis Cro-Mags - Sign Of The Times Infect - Um Buraco De Realidade Doom - Multinationals Apartment 213 - Die Section Fear Of God - As Statues Fell / Controlled By Fear Melt Banana - Wedge No Value - D-Punk

EDIT: That was a cool fucking comp, if I do say so myself, you are lucky if you got it when it was available, of course the server is gone now and it is gone as well...que lastima

System Of A Down - demos

I try not to follow the news too much as it usually just pisses me off (I've mentioned that before).  When I go to log in at my Yahoo email account I catch the headlines there and alot of times that's enough for me.  There were two headlines yesterday, one right after the other.  "No cost of living increase for Social Security recipients" and "Goldman Sachs profit tops $3B on strong trading".  I know singing the same old song like you've heard a million times before, but the rich are getting richer and the poor are getting poorer.  That's what makes a third world country.  I can't even fathom a billion dollars.  I take home about $1300 a month and at that rate it would take me 64 years to have taken home one million dollars.  When you consider the rest of the world, I am not poor by any stretch of the imagination, but when you've got NFL atheletes taking home a million a game, actors making 20 million a movie and CEO's making 30 million a year, something is wrong.  I know I'm just some lowly guy helping people with disabilities find work (I'm certainly not the best at what I do), but damn.  I'm not bitching, I don't care if I make more money, I survive pretty well on what I make, I just think that anyone taking home a million a year is taking home plenty.  When is it enough?  Last year, John McCain, kind of jokingly, stated that to be rich is making 5 million a year.  To me that is filthy rich.  How rich is rich enough?  Ageless topic but it's just what was on my mind. I've been sitting on this one a while, actually already had it uploaded, but my buddy Jay mentioned these guys so I decided now was a good time.  These guys are extemely big, so there's probably no point in giving you some kind of lowdown, when you can find that at my usual source, here.  You know, it's funny because I usually link you guys to the Wikipedia article about each band (predictable I know), but in looking for other info about these guys I noticed that a lot of blogs just copy off that Wikipedia article and that is the sum total of their post.  I'm no better or worse I guess, just different, but I'm not used to that kind of absence of babbling.  Being the half breed that I am, I guess I'm kind of racist in that I checked these guys out purely because they were all Armenian (and from Glendale, where I spent many years hanging out).  Anybody been to the Glendale Galleria?  I'm not really into the whole NuMetal thing, there are a few exceptions, but these guys are grisley (had to think of a new word because I use brutal too often).  I tried to have a buddy of mine help me to hunt down these demos a while back, but he wouldn't touch them because he didn't dig them.  For some people they're a little too mainstream and I get that, being underground used to be really important to me.  This stuff though is from when they were underground and actually nowhere near as polished as they were to become.  Still to me this band is one of a kind and I'm interested to here the positive and the negative of what you guys have to say. Untitled Demo 1995 PIG (Mr. Jack) Flake Toast The Metro First Demo Sugar Suite-Pee Dam P.L.U.C.K. (Politically Lying, Unholy, Cowardly Killers) Second Demo Honey Soil Temper Third Demo Know War Peep-Hole

 

Minutemen - Buzz Or Howl Under The Influence Of Heat 12" ep

Well as I said in the last post, starting to get cold out here.  In the 30's isn't too bad today but the brutal wind and freezing rain is a bummer.  That's what a centrally heated house is for though, right?  We don't smoke in the house, so every hour or so, the little dogs and I venture out into the cold for a habit that will inevitably be the death of me, unless someone gets me first.  Neat in a natural way because the geese have started heading south and you hear them honking (actually thought today it sounded like coyotes out behind the house in the wind break) and see them flying in their continuously morphing V formations.  Well, got some requests I wanted to satisfy, which was kind of cool, because they come from two of my former Garden Weasel bandmates.  It got me to thinking that there was one bandmate, Steve, who has been MIA around here since the very beginning.  What in my collection would he request?  Probably Slayer, but we've already gone there, so I came up with this... Warlock Pinchers - Where The Hell Is Crispin Glover. Anybody remember those guys from the late 80's?  If yall want I could go ahead and rip/upload the whole album.  Anybody remember how great Crispin Glove was in the River's Edge or for that matter Dennis Hopper?  Tripped me out in that movie how over time you could see death take form in that girl's eyes. Now my bro Ed, after getting an earful of Swiss gods, Fear of God, requested some stuff from their country mates, Hellhammer.  I possess, but I do not physically own any of their stuff, although I did try to change that in middle of writing this post by hitting up Ebay.  So, this is not the main topic of this post, you might consider it a contradictory aside.  Did some reading up on these guys, in the middle of this, at my usual source, here.  I actually like these guys better than what they morphed into, Celtic frost, but I am far from a metal (or music in general) expert.  I think it's that obvious Motorhead and Venom influence that draws me to them.  Influential and yet frowned upon for some reason, from what I gather.  Thanx Ed. Hellhammer - Death Fiend (Demo) (1983) Now my bro Brian had requested some Minutemen and damned if he didn't send me this EP a while back.  I don't know how long I'll leave this up here as you can still get this Ep from 1983 at  SST Records, along with most, if not everything these guys released.  I've mentioned it before that I was a little disappointed in SST, $24 seems a little steep for a t-shirt.  Regardless, if this is asked to be removed, as with anything else on this fucking site, I will do so because I am BOUND BY LAW.   Use this as a sample and go buy their stuff, okay?  You know back in the early 80's I kind of shied away from these guys because they weren't really what I was digging on.  For some reason I think I saw them at a party with Shower of Smegma (very few of you picked up on that awesome post, Jay you remember them?).  If you don't know about these guys, I'm surprised but I think you should.  Kind of the orignators of that jazz punk thing in my opinion, or least one of the early bands in that pseudo genre.  I can really get into this stuff these days, but my taste is all over the place (as is this site).  Thanx Brian for the request.

[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nFZH1HblqQ4&w=560&h=315]

Just for the hell of it, here's the Minutemen's first appearance on vinyl (I think) from the "Cracks In The Sidewalk" comp EP. 9:30 May 2

Fear Of God - Born Blind 7"

Starting to get cold fellas, with the days getting shorter, I know Fall is here and Winter's around the corner.  Ironic thinking of Winter coming, because in my semi-random internet wanderings I stumbled upon the story of the Wounded Knee Massacre.  The story is a symbol of so much that went on back then and it bothers me reading it today as much as it did when I first read it 25 years ago.  If you ever want to read a piece of history that will make your blood boil about the establishment that would be an excellent place to start.  So many similarities to today, the greedy, ignorant, insensitive masses and lying politicians with their Christian/patriotic facades.  I can remember in high school, my history teacher asking me in the middle of class, what I thought of what we did to the "Indians".  I told him IT SUCKS!  That may have been one of those days I was drunk in class, can't remember for sure.  What did Dave MDC sing, "why's the system so straight and me so bent"?  What's interesting is that I do this to myself all the time, fueling a fire of anger concerning what has gone on/is going on.  So I wander on the internet a little more and I run across a site like the Gallows Gallery.  That one will cheer you up and maybe even appeal to the sadist in all of us.  You know I looked at every page/picture on that blog.  Something cheerful is what I need every once in a while.  An additive free cigarette, a cup of really good coffee and some music. I had a request for some Fear of God from a young guy who uses the nickname, GG Allin, who I had given a hard time for writing some things about me on his site a while back.  His comments have been a welcome addition around here so I though I would oblige him.  Erich  has posted quite a bit from his old band on his site (some of the links no longer work), but he did me one better and sent me this one a while back (I mentioned that before).  It was about time I posted these guys if I wanted to keep with the theme of this site (see header at the top) because I can remember the first time I heard them back in 1987(8?).  I was at my friend Ron's house (I've mentioned him and my friend Bob several times) doing what we did sometimes, smoke good weed and listen to music.  He put these guys on, I still have the tape that I dubbed from that session, and I was blown away.  You know Grindcore was still young and I was very familiar with bands like Repulsion and Napalm Death, but this was something different.  Similar but they stood all by themselves as something unique, as different as Repulsion was from Napalm Death.  From the first song, "Controlled By Fear" I was hooked.  By the fifth song, when Erich announces "Two Sides Of The Coin", I told Ron to start it all over, but this time we would put a tape in and hit record.  You know that was a good session, because on top of Fear Of God being on that tape, there is Terrorizer, Dead Horse and Stark Raving Mad.  I believe that was the first self titled 7" and when I went and looked for it I couldn't find it to buy for myself.  Still kicking myself for that one.  Anyway I could go on and on but you need to read what this guy Joseph has to say over at Joseph Love's It.  Now this very well packaged bootleg, Born Blind, released in 2003 is interesting in that it is one of those records where one side just rips and the other side is a disappointment.  The first side is a rehearsal recorded 1988 and the sound and energy is just perfect, definitely worthy of putting on vinyl.  Like some sort of long lost material.  The second side, a live show recorded in 1987 is such a poor recording, I was left wondering if they couldn't find something better.  There is so much good live FOG stuff out there and this mess of static and tape hiss just doesn't match up.  I didn't bother breaking that side up into tracks.  Those first 5 tunes though are well worth a listen, check it out.

[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kTj1s8KDDeU&w=790&h=593]